Mind Tricks

Posted by ilic`` at 12:46, 1/7/2004

I challenge anyone to take a drink of tizer, then a drink of sprite with your eyes closed and then be able to tell them apart. You may get lucky after only a few goes as its only a 50/50 chance, but like a coin toss after a few spins, or in this case sips, the correct answer can only be a geuss. I swear there is no difference between the two, apart from ones red and the other is clear.

This is where the mind starts playing tricks on you, becuase the liquid is red you think it tastes different but NO.

The comparison between the two is so minute.

I think everyone should try this experiment at home, perhaps even make an event out of it, get your mates round, make tally charts, frequency tables etc. It dont get more fun than that!!!!!

Science can be fun!

Enjoy

ilic

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	R1ck 12:50 1/7/2004	#1 this is cool [ Score: -1, pointless \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 12:51 1/7/2004	ill have to try it later when i go to the shops. ill make sure i get them both [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Eggy^ 13:28 1/7/2004	Are you sure that its not the fact that the taste of tizer stays in your mouth.... Its still there when u take in the lemonade, has a stronger taste so it tastes the "same" End of. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	leon^ 13:35 1/7/2004	tizer tastes red, sprite doesnt! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	StriKeN unicon.cs 13:36 1/7/2004	im gonna give that a go later too [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Torrad 13:47 1/7/2004	Your social life must be blooming at the moment.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hektic 13:56 1/7/2004	As must yours if you have time to sit and write whining comments about it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Spikey The Bomb Squad 13:56 1/7/2004	Got anything better to do than attempt to create "fun" games around the table drinking fizzy drinks. Tell you what lets make a night of it.... get all my mates round and drink tizer and sprite ooooooh what fun. Or I could go out and get hammered on Kronenburg. Vodka Red Bulls and plent of shots! Once your p***ed you cant tell what your drinking anyway .... better doing it that way! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 14:00 1/7/2004	you could allways add vodka to your tizer and sprite if you feel the need to be the BIG man and get tipsy [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 14:12 1/7/2004	lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	frantiC`` Shoot First Ask Later 14:32 1/7/2004	good collum, well thought out and researched. will have to try this asap. best collum since the yogart one which was superb. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DidGe Synergy Online 14:40 1/7/2004	I think everyone should try this experiment at home, perhaps even make an event out of it, get your mates round, make tally charts, frequency tables etc. It dont get more fun than that!!!!! or maybe just taste the two of em and then ask for oppinions or just dont bother and believe you :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	darkst0rm the demonic radicals 14:53 1/7/2004	what are collums? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Psy^ xtreme9.uk 14:56 1/7/2004	they made us try it once in school with crisps, yea it worked :E [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 15:29 1/7/2004	I agree with frantic, the yoghurt one rocked my world too. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ensnare Atari.Crew 15:38 1/7/2004	he works for coca cola and whoever makes tizer!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Negotiator Clan ONE 15:44 1/7/2004	tizer???? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w1cked Croydon 15:52 1/7/2004	jesus frantic you retard its column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	gReen 16:28 1/7/2004	which flavour tizer? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 16:30 1/7/2004	normal, and Eggy, it is good idea to gargle water inbetween each go, that way no tizer or sprite would be left in there [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sincy 16:39 1/7/2004	I reckon the real mind trick here is that the majority of people who read this column are gonna go buy tizer + sprite today... ilic works for em! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	trippz 16:43 1/7/2004	one of the best columns iv read in time. Nice read!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tetris Irish Connection.UK 16:47 1/7/2004	haha u champ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TecwynWhittock 16:50 1/7/2004	Pretty much the same ingredients of Sugar, Water, Citric Acid Flavourings and Preservative (Sodium Benzoate) http://www.cabana.co.uk/brands/tizer.asp http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/spriteremix/facts.asp Google > you [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bodkin 2seXeh 2perfoRm 16:58 1/7/2004	haha gd column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	$inghpin 17:01 1/7/2004	lol TecwynWhittock nice one and Frantic - You're giving up the drink -P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Demo conneXion 17:04 1/7/2004	If R1ck is trying it I dont want to :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroblob 17:27 1/7/2004	"you could allways add vodka to your tizer and sprite if you feel the need to be the BIG man and get tipsy" for that reply alone.. u get a 10 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ObZ^ 18:02 1/7/2004	if only i was still at skool, might have had a fun science project! ;p [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ripper Rush! 18:53 1/7/2004	pretty sure tizer tastes different [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Chops classified 19:04 1/7/2004	being a noob.... tizer...wtf? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fun time fatteh 19:12 1/7/2004	wicked stfu u bellend who cares if u make 1 small spelling mistake and singh no chance fran will evvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr give up the drink it keeps him sane! like me to....ive got the dreaded bar tab now oh dear ;[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rain^ 2seXeh 2perfoRm 19:50 1/7/2004	thats quite funny cause i actually hate tizer and really like sprite, and being really sad i just tired this and out of the 5 times i done this I guessed the right drink each time. does this mean im lucky or is ur test just crap? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 19:51 1/7/2004	Cherry Coke > all soft drinks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Seaweed 20:26 1/7/2004	they all taste like s*** to me [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 20:38 1/7/2004	DoZ can tell the difference between grapefruit juice processed in the different temperate regions of nicaragua ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fezemoN 20:39 1/7/2004	Pint of Milk > all drinks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Heknom 21:15 1/7/2004	aye wp for the vodka big man comment illic , #1 u disserve a 10 , well researcged :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 21:38 1/7/2004	www.milksucks.com says otherwise ;( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ZertioN 22:44 1/7/2004	Hektic, why r u whining about him whinging ur obv in the same boat as him... as am i by moaning at u just now u big headed f***ing idiot. die of aids [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ZertioN 22:45 1/7/2004	but obv tha aint true =] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 22:49 1/7/2004	If R1ck is trying it I dont want to :( Demo, all the time on irc you come out with comments such as 'R1ck go away your a 12 year old noob' then you go and be a total c**k and act all immature and i'm still the 12 year old noob. Can someone please explain to me how this works bacause personally I don't understand it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-[c0Ka\|Ne]- contact! 00:31 2/7/2004	I drink sprite all the time their is a simlarity but not enough to say it is the same [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Farley quintessential 00:42 2/7/2004	Thats cos your a God Rain ...... It's like cheating :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fsk twisted Reality 07:43 2/7/2004	shut up r1ck ur 12 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 11:14 2/7/2004	he works for the companys and just wants u to go buy there product every person who reads this collum then goes buys a bottle he gets £1 for [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 11:39 2/7/2004	or he could have been that bored at work, he decided to make a column about a discussion he and his mates had at the weekend whilst having a few joints, when one lad had tizer, the other had sprite and none of them could tell the difference. then again buy up youths, ive got a 200 nug bonus to get!!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MeGaMaN- Rush! 12:53 2/7/2004	Terrible column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 13:04 2/7/2004	My mate clearly shows that they both taste the same in this picture LOL http://www.cplpro.com/Photo015.jpg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 13:50 2/7/2004	is your mate 12 too? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 14:35 2/7/2004	no, as you can clearly see by the picture he doesnt look 12. the picture was took just before i posted the comment so if he was 12 he would have been at school but he got the afternoon of college. Also i am not 12 or I would have also been at school which im not [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:15 2/7/2004	From the picture I thought he looked 12 which is why I said it, dickhead. If not 12 then at max he looks 14. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:17 2/7/2004	Oh and looking at him he doesnt look like he goes to school anyway, looks like something brought up in the area I go to college in. Though I shouldnt be prejudiced. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	frantiC`` Shoot First Ask Later 15:25 2/7/2004	get a f*ing grip ffs its just a bit of FUN! who cares if hes 12/14/28? its all in the name of F U N! if u dont like it then f* off?? kewp the experiments going lads!!! tis good to see! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w1cked Croydon 16:02 2/7/2004	fun time fatteh he spelt it wrong 3 times, wasnt a typo you t**t! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 16:52 2/7/2004	I couldnt think of anything more fun than tasting 2 different fizzy drinks with my eyes closed. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Huckan Boys From The Dwarf 18:40 2/7/2004	Coke just isn't Pepsi... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroblob 00:59 3/7/2004	that's Roar^ on the lockdown [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fun time fatteh 03:10 3/7/2004	w1cked Croydon 16:02 2/7/2004 fun time fatteh he spelt it wrong 3 times, wasnt a typo you tt! does it matter it aint no spelling comp MEIGHT u dont get free sweeties for spellings so why bother i know for a fact he doesnt care and thinks ur the fing biggest tt around and ur 1 ugly tt espically trying to look like damon from brookie....at least base urself on sum1 remotely looking human u f**ing bellend [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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	R1ck 12:50 1/7/2004	#1 this is cool [ Score: -1, pointless \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 12:51 1/7/2004	ill have to try it later when i go to the shops. ill make sure i get them both [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Eggy^ 13:28 1/7/2004	Are you sure that its not the fact that the taste of tizer stays in your mouth.... Its still there when u take in the lemonade, has a stronger taste so it tastes the "same" End of. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	leon^ 13:35 1/7/2004	tizer tastes red, sprite doesnt! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	StriKeN unicon.cs 13:36 1/7/2004	im gonna give that a go later too [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Torrad 13:47 1/7/2004	Your social life must be blooming at the moment.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hektic 13:56 1/7/2004	As must yours if you have time to sit and write whining comments about it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Spikey The Bomb Squad 13:56 1/7/2004	Got anything better to do than attempt to create "fun" games around the table drinking fizzy drinks. Tell you what lets make a night of it.... get all my mates round and drink tizer and sprite ooooooh what fun. Or I could go out and get hammered on Kronenburg. Vodka Red Bulls and plent of shots! Once your p***ed you cant tell what your drinking anyway .... better doing it that way! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 14:00 1/7/2004	you could allways add vodka to your tizer and sprite if you feel the need to be the BIG man and get tipsy [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 14:12 1/7/2004	lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	frantiC`` Shoot First Ask Later 14:32 1/7/2004	good collum, well thought out and researched. will have to try this asap. best collum since the yogart one which was superb. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DidGe Synergy Online 14:40 1/7/2004	I think everyone should try this experiment at home, perhaps even make an event out of it, get your mates round, make tally charts, frequency tables etc. It dont get more fun than that!!!!! or maybe just taste the two of em and then ask for oppinions or just dont bother and believe you :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	darkst0rm the demonic radicals 14:53 1/7/2004	what are collums? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Psy^ xtreme9.uk 14:56 1/7/2004	they made us try it once in school with crisps, yea it worked :E [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 15:29 1/7/2004	I agree with frantic, the yoghurt one rocked my world too. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ensnare Atari.Crew 15:38 1/7/2004	he works for coca cola and whoever makes tizer!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Negotiator Clan ONE 15:44 1/7/2004	tizer???? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w1cked Croydon 15:52 1/7/2004	jesus frantic you retard its column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	gReen 16:28 1/7/2004	which flavour tizer? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 16:30 1/7/2004	normal, and Eggy, it is good idea to gargle water inbetween each go, that way no tizer or sprite would be left in there [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sincy 16:39 1/7/2004	I reckon the real mind trick here is that the majority of people who read this column are gonna go buy tizer + sprite today... ilic works for em! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	trippz 16:43 1/7/2004	one of the best columns iv read in time. Nice read!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tetris Irish Connection.UK 16:47 1/7/2004	haha u champ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	TecwynWhittock 16:50 1/7/2004	Pretty much the same ingredients of Sugar, Water, Citric Acid Flavourings and Preservative (Sodium Benzoate) http://www.cabana.co.uk/brands/tizer.asp http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/spriteremix/facts.asp Google > you [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bodkin 2seXeh 2perfoRm 16:58 1/7/2004	haha gd column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	$inghpin 17:01 1/7/2004	lol TecwynWhittock nice one and Frantic - You're giving up the drink -P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Demo conneXion 17:04 1/7/2004	If R1ck is trying it I dont want to :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroblob 17:27 1/7/2004	"you could allways add vodka to your tizer and sprite if you feel the need to be the BIG man and get tipsy" for that reply alone.. u get a 10 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ObZ^ 18:02 1/7/2004	if only i was still at skool, might have had a fun science project! ;p [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ripper Rush! 18:53 1/7/2004	pretty sure tizer tastes different [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Chops classified 19:04 1/7/2004	being a noob.... tizer...wtf? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fun time fatteh 19:12 1/7/2004	wicked stfu u bellend who cares if u make 1 small spelling mistake and singh no chance fran will evvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr give up the drink it keeps him sane! like me to....ive got the dreaded bar tab now oh dear ;[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rain^ 2seXeh 2perfoRm 19:50 1/7/2004	thats quite funny cause i actually hate tizer and really like sprite, and being really sad i just tired this and out of the 5 times i done this I guessed the right drink each time. does this mean im lucky or is ur test just crap? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 19:51 1/7/2004	Cherry Coke > all soft drinks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Seaweed 20:26 1/7/2004	they all taste like s*** to me [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 20:38 1/7/2004	DoZ can tell the difference between grapefruit juice processed in the different temperate regions of nicaragua ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fezemoN 20:39 1/7/2004	Pint of Milk > all drinks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Heknom 21:15 1/7/2004	aye wp for the vodka big man comment illic , #1 u disserve a 10 , well researcged :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 21:38 1/7/2004	www.milksucks.com says otherwise ;( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ZertioN 22:44 1/7/2004	Hektic, why r u whining about him whinging ur obv in the same boat as him... as am i by moaning at u just now u big headed f***ing idiot. die of aids [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ZertioN 22:45 1/7/2004	but obv tha aint true =] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 22:49 1/7/2004	If R1ck is trying it I dont want to :( Demo, all the time on irc you come out with comments such as 'R1ck go away your a 12 year old noob' then you go and be a total c**k and act all immature and i'm still the 12 year old noob. Can someone please explain to me how this works bacause personally I don't understand it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-[c0Ka\|Ne]- contact! 00:31 2/7/2004	I drink sprite all the time their is a simlarity but not enough to say it is the same [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Farley quintessential 00:42 2/7/2004	Thats cos your a God Rain ...... It's like cheating :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fsk twisted Reality 07:43 2/7/2004	shut up r1ck ur 12 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 11:14 2/7/2004	he works for the companys and just wants u to go buy there product every person who reads this collum then goes buys a bottle he gets £1 for [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ilic`` Team56 11:39 2/7/2004	or he could have been that bored at work, he decided to make a column about a discussion he and his mates had at the weekend whilst having a few joints, when one lad had tizer, the other had sprite and none of them could tell the difference. then again buy up youths, ive got a 200 nug bonus to get!!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MeGaMaN- Rush! 12:53 2/7/2004	Terrible column [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 13:04 2/7/2004	My mate clearly shows that they both taste the same in this picture LOL http://www.cplpro.com/Photo015.jpg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 13:50 2/7/2004	is your mate 12 too? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	R1ck 14:35 2/7/2004	no, as you can clearly see by the picture he doesnt look 12. the picture was took just before i posted the comment so if he was 12 he would have been at school but he got the afternoon of college. Also i am not 12 or I would have also been at school which im not [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:15 2/7/2004	From the picture I thought he looked 12 which is why I said it, dickhead. If not 12 then at max he looks 14. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:17 2/7/2004	Oh and looking at him he doesnt look like he goes to school anyway, looks like something brought up in the area I go to college in. Though I shouldnt be prejudiced. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	frantiC`` Shoot First Ask Later 15:25 2/7/2004	get a f*ing grip ffs its just a bit of FUN! who cares if hes 12/14/28? its all in the name of F U N! if u dont like it then f* off?? kewp the experiments going lads!!! tis good to see! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w1cked Croydon 16:02 2/7/2004	fun time fatteh he spelt it wrong 3 times, wasnt a typo you t**t! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 16:52 2/7/2004	I couldnt think of anything more fun than tasting 2 different fizzy drinks with my eyes closed. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Huckan Boys From The Dwarf 18:40 2/7/2004	Coke just isn't Pepsi... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroblob 00:59 3/7/2004	that's Roar^ on the lockdown [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fun time fatteh 03:10 3/7/2004	w1cked Croydon 16:02 2/7/2004 fun time fatteh he spelt it wrong 3 times, wasnt a typo you tt! does it matter it aint no spelling comp MEIGHT u dont get free sweeties for spellings so why bother i know for a fact he doesnt care and thinks ur the fing biggest tt around and ur 1 ugly tt espically trying to look like damon from brookie....at least base urself on sum1 remotely looking human u f**ing bellend [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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